“How the Facebook Age Has Influenced Changes in Human Behavior.”

In his article, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” Stephen Marche argues that Facebook is the vital cause for loneliness and is luring people away from social capital. According to Marche, social networking isolates individuals and creates distance, mostly amongst family members. For some, it is not only isolation but rather social loneliness. The author claims that health can also be effected by loneliness. Nowadays, due to very little verbal person to person communication, he writes that people have never been so separated from one another because of social media. Facebook users, Marche argues, have an addiction to profoundly visit their account constantly leading to the feeling of loneliness and in most cases depression. The author claims that social networking, instead of demolishing isolation, is unknowingly spreading it. Ultimately, However, Stephen’s argument fails to convince due to his abundant false assumptions and the articles confusing organization.

In this society many people completely immerse themselves in a new life that often times leads to distractions within their real life. Turkle states, “For those who are lonely yet fearful of intimacy, online life provides environments where one can be a loner yet not alone, have the illusion of companionship without the demands of sustained, intimate friendship”. This statement supports her overall claim that the addiction to technology leads to a person alienating themselves. A person could have the greatest life in an online environment and not even leave their house. This continues to lead the reader to the second trouble of her soul by setting them up emotionally. In this instance Turkle is trying to elicit a reaction of feeling sorry for the people reading her essay.

Within Jenna Wortham's article, "Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)," Wortham discusses the impact that social media possesses, in which Wortham believes that technology is responsible for shaping people's lives negatively. From Wortham's previous experiences, she shares a moment in her life that made her realize that people often compare their lives to others excessively- one of the reasons why people have social media attachment issues. Wortham also expresses how social media users brag about their lives being better than others through exaggerated posts- something that shouldn't be encouraged. With effort to resolve this issue, Wortham considers and suggests Mr. Hofmann's advice to readers: go screenless for a certain

There’s this feeling, it's indescribable. You know it, I know it and evokes anxiety that consumes your mind. Your heart begins to race, your stomach begins to drop and you frantically race to fix this problem. In just a few moments your life feels over. You feel alone, in complete and utter despair, it’s like you’re in a chasm of intense loneliness and neglect. This feeling when the wifi disconnects. We can’t bear to stop scrolling to see what our ‘friends’ are doing, uploading, liking, reacting and commenting. After all, social media connects us. It brings the world a little closer, and yet, we’ve never been more disconnected to the world and the ones we love than now.

A similar, though less gruesome and repugnant, 21st century version of the unintended, tragic consequences of misusing technology, namely Facebook, seems to exist today. There was a time when people used to come out of their comfort zones for direct social interactions until the advent of social networking sites. The prevalence of social networking sites permeating through our everyday

One of the myths carried by social media is that it makes users more socially connected, however, it worsens feelings of social isolation. Social media often tries to take the place of face-to-face relationships, ruining healthy ones (Norton 1). Technology has become an essential part of the way people communicate with one another and has increasingly taken the place of face-to-face communication. This allows people to substitute electronic relationships with physical ones, promoting social isolation. Replacing real-world relationships with social media use is detrimental to a user’s well being.

The creation and nurturing of fulfilling human relationships is failing. These relationships are built upon empathy, compassion and amity; however, those attributes are replaced with selfishness, narcissism and indifference. If that were not enough, people today neither can nor want deep meaningful relationships, opting for mere connection. In her essay, “Growing Up Tethered,” Sherry Turkle, a professor in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, illustrates the power that new media has. She contends it has fundamentally changed people, wherein they are putting themselves in harm’s way just to connect to someone.

Whenever I scroll down Facebook all I see is joy and happiness that everyone I’m friends with is having. Pictures from concert, delicious gourmet food, and amazing parties flood my timeline. Each time that I see these kinds of pictures, it makes me look back on to my day or my week and see how much fun I didn’t have that week. It makes me question why I don’t have that kind of life or why I don’t have that kind of money. Everyone who I consider acquaintances have their lives figured out while I can’t even decide what flavor Frappuccino I want at Starbucks. One quote inside the article that sums up my feelings is “They seemed to feel particularly crummy about themselves after logging onto the site and

In today’s world, technology is at its peak. However, there was a time when things were getting evolved and websites were created to connect and socialize. For example, Facebook was created with the intent of connecting with people, but it rather forced people to compare each other’s live, which made some people sad. It became successful, but not completely successful. Libby Copeland’s essay, “Is Facebook Making us Sad,” addresses a key factor in how Facebook makes us sad, according to research and some expert testimony. One key factor that I would like to address in the essay, how humans compare their lives with others on Facebook, making themselves lonely and sad.

The first reaction to Copeland’s article, “Is Facebook Making Us Sad?” is to agree with her observations. Many people tend to compare their lives to those of others on Facebook. When they look at the uploaded photos, they feel dejected, poorer and inferior. These people are inclined to compare their own decisions to those of others on Facebook. As a result, many feel that their life is wanting as they believe others to be happier than they really are.

Facebook has over a billion active users. It is the most popular social media platform that is still growing its numbers worldwide. Given that 10 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every hour, it easily provides a medium for engaging in appearance-related social comparison, especially among women. Since Facebook allow its users to upload edited and often enhanced images, women are presenting the best version of themselves. A study found that spending 20 min on Facebook lead to more negative mood than did browsing the Internet in general (not including social networking sites) or spending no time online. Multiple studies also demonstrated that individuals who spend more time on Facebook believed that others are happier and have better lives than themselves.

According to Forbes, there are about 1 billion social media accounts all over the world, these accounts makes almost all of the countries of the world connected with each other.Social media is a very common in today’s modern world, social media is considered to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements and accomplishments. Never before humans were connected to each other as in today’s world. and almost everybody has a Facebook account, there are about 500 million Facebook accounts. Facebook allow its users to chat with each other, to see each other’s pictures, and to comment on any post. Which is very useful in the business and marketing world.

Most of us use social media to communicate with our family, friends and our loved once. Since almost all of my friends live 8000 mile away, I use Facebook, Instagram, and viber to keep in touch with them. Bur recently I started noticing it has become more than a means of communication. I start posting a picture and obsesses about how many likes I get, checking other peoples Facebook just to see if they have more friends than me, believing every post without questioning if it’s a fact and funny enough I start sending friend request for people I don’t even know. Christine Rosen, a senior editor of the New Atlantis and resident fellow at the Ethics and Public policy Center in Wessington, D.C. on “In the Beginning Was the World”, she wrote how technology is affecting the society’s critical reading ability. Peggy Orenstein, an author and a contributing writer for the New York Times, on “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she talks about how social media is distracting as from fully live in the moment. Even though the development of technology have increased the quality of life, it also brought undeniable challenges to our society. The constant use of social media and internet has increase society attention-seeking, Distracted, and decries critical reading. The use of social media has increased dramatically throughout the years.

In September 2006, Facebook is just a new born social networking site which has approximately 9.5 million users (Raacke and Bonds-Raacke, 2008). In November 2013, the users of Facebook have increased to 1,278 million (Facebook, 2013). Based on user number and traffic research, Facebook already become the world biggest social networking sites. The dramatic development of Facebook brings a series changes in people’s everyday life. There are a number of functions to satisfy different demand of their audience. For example, Facebook allow users to build up a personal profile and post their information on it. In addition, they can find some entertainment function, Games app supply thousands of games. Many researches begin to focus their attention on the relationship between Facebook and its audiences. These researches mainly use college students as survey subject. As one of the biggest user group, more than 90% college students have Facebook account (Wiley and Sisson, 2006; Ellison and Steinfield et al., 2007; Raacke and Bonds-Raacke, 2008). Some researches showed college students spend time on Facebook per day is about 30 minutes (Ellison and Steinfield et al 2007; Valenzuela and Park et al., 2009; Pempek and Yermolayeva et al. 2009). However, these researches have just evaluated the impact of Facebook on users, and no research analyses how the audience demand affect Facebook service. As one of the Facebook users, it is important to know the relationship between Facebook and me.

It is the twenty first century, the age of technology. Today’s society would not be the same without computers, cell phones, iPods, GPS navigators, and multiple other technological devices. A very useful one is the Internet along with its many websites like the vastly growing social network, Facebook. There are nearly over 1 billion users on Facebook worldwide and the amount is growing every day.